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Peter Grimes opera in three acts and a prologue

Title: Peter Grimes [sound recording] : opera in three acts and a prologue / Benjamin Britten ; libretto by Montagu Slater, after a poem by George Crabbe.
Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

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Description

3 sound cassettes (216 min.) : analog, stereo., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 10, 1977

Uniform Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Title from house program.
Durations: 63 min. (Introduction, synopses, and intermission features ; 2:33:00 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) on file.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 10, 1977.

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Contents

side 1. Prelude ; Act 1, scene 1 -- side 2. Act 1, scene 2 ; Act 2, scene 1 -- side 3. Act 2, scene 2 ; Act 3, scene 1 -- side 4. Act 3, scene 2 ; Closing remarks (Peter Allen) -- side 5. Introduction and synopsis of Act 1 (Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Reflections on Peter Grimes by John Culshaw) ; synopsis of Act 2 (Allen) -- side 6. Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes questions John Ardoin, William Livingstone, and Edwin Newman) ; synopsis of Act 3 (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 758

OCLC

NYPG05-R10541

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Title

Peter Grimes [sound recording] : opera in three acts and a prologue / Benjamin Britten ; libretto by Montagu Slater, after a poem by George Crabbe.

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 10, 1977

Performer

Andrij Dobriansky (Hobson) ; Morley Meredith (Swallow) ; Jon Vickers (Peter Grimes) ; Jean Kraft (Mrs. (Nabob) Sedley) ; Heather Harper (Ellen Orford) ; Donald Peck (A fisherman) ; Lili Chookasian (Auntie) ; Paul Franke (Bob Boles) ; Donald Gramm (Captain Balstrode) ; Nadyne Brewer (A fisherwoman) ; James Atherton (Rev. Horace Adams) ; Alma Jean Smith, Betsy Norden (Two nieces) ; Gene Boucher (Ned Keene) ; William Mellow (A lawyer) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; John Pritchard, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 10, 1977.

Original Version

Cassette tape service copy re-recorded at NYPL in 1982 from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track, stereo. ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Slater, Montagu, 1902- Librettist

Crabbe, George, 1754-1832. Peter Grimes.

Dobriansky, Andrij. Performer

Meredith, Morley. Performer

Vickers, Jon. Performer

Kraft, Jean. Performer

Harper, Heather. Performer

Peck, Donald. Performer

Chookasian, Lili. Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Atherton, James. Performer

Gramm, Donald. Performer

Brewer, Nadyne. Performer

Smith, Alma Jean. Performer

Norden, Betsy. Performer

Boucher, Gene. Performer

Mellow, William. Performer

Culshaw, John. Commentator

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Pritchard, John, 1921- Conductor

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Ardoin, John. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Newman, Edwin. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 758 Notes on file.

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